Just a quick tip to make StepMania remember combos

[kirbyrockz]

I don't know if this is new or old, or even if people want to know how. But I thought I'd post it anyway. When I say "remember combos", I mean "act like In The Groove 2's combo system". Basically, it'll remember your combo from the last song you did when you start your next song, allowing you to rack up very high combos.

(I only know how to do this in 3.9. If anyone else knows how to do it otherwise please post it)

To do this...

1. Open your StepMania folder
2. Open the "Data" folder, and load the "StepMania.ini" file
3. Hit Control+F, and search ComboContinuesBetweenSongs
4. Once you've located the phrase, change it from this:

"ComboContinuesBetweenSongs=0"

to this:

"ComboContinuesBetweenSongs=1"


Yeah, I kinda oversimplified the how-to, but now it's easy for everyone to do.

Hope I helped in some way or other.
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[kirbyrockz]

Hooray typos! Thanks for the tipoff.
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[Devon]

um? everyone sorta knows this already.

[kirbyrockz]

Since when can people "sorta" know things? You either know it or you don't.

I didn't say this is new, but there was no place that I could find via Google to help make this work.

So it's not OLD'D, but rather NO TOPIC YET'D.
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[That guy with the afro...]

I didn't know this.
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[Devon]

The reason it is "NO TOPIC'D" is because everyone knows this already. It's almost as stupid as me making a thread on how to double click the stepmania window icon.

[kirbyrockz]

So you're calling RandomUser a nobody? Since everybody knows about it, anyone who doesn't isn't a part of "everybody".

Yeah, real nice. You're trying to make me feel bad about posting this when I just wanted to help out. I Google'd this and didn't see it anywhere, so I just found out myself and posted it here for people who did not know how.

Your comparison of a program code hidden within file scripts to a blatantly obvious button on the top right corner of every window is irrelevant to the discussion.

I'm not getting anything out of this. I just wanted to help. RandomUser is proof that at least some people didn't know this, and thus disproves your statement.
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[neoMAXCML]

Hint: This feature has been removed from the latest version of StepMania 4.0.

[shurf]

[Zonic]

Since we're talkin' combos, is there a way to change it so jumps are only counted as 1 instead of 2? Is it somewhere related where you were mentioning?

[kirbyrockz]

That's a great question, but I don't have an answer to it. From my guessing, unless there's a special option created, it would require a rewriting of major code to make jumps count as just one combo.

But maybe someone knows the answer.
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[MaxxOverload]

Someone Tell me why its not working. Here's the StepMania.ini file I put in the Data folder.

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BlinkGameplayButtonLightsOnNote=1
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